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FAQ for ATHK1001 Assignment 1
1. Where do I submit my assignment? Via Canvas from the same page where you found
the materials Assignment 1. If you go to the ATHK1001 Canvas website and look under the
“Other Assessments” tab click on “Assignment 1”. At the bottom of this page is the place
where you can drag your file to upload and submit it.
DO NOT TRY TO SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT BY E-MAILING IT TO A TUTOR OR
INSTRUCTOR. We cannot accept submissions directly. They must be made via Canvas and
the time they count as submitted is the time that Canvas records.
2. What file format should I use? The submission link will only accept PDF files. Your file
should just be text, there should be no tables or images, except that you can use an image for
the graph requested in Question 3. If you include other images it is possible we will not be
able to mark your assignment.
3. When should I submit my assignment? By the 11:59pm Thursday 28/3/2024 (Australian
Standard Time), but try to submit well beforehand. Avoid leaving it to last minute. With any
computer system delays, problems, or confusion can occur, especially if this is the first time
you are submitting to Canvas. Computer/internet problems are not considered grounds for an
extension unless they affect all students. Canvas records the exact time of your submission,
so if it is even one second past the deadline then it counts as a day late.
4. How do I know I have successfully submitted my assignment in Canvas? As far as I
can see, once you have uploaded your file and made sure you have clicked the box to agree
with the end-users statement, you then click “Submit Assignment”. You then see some digital
confetti and the page displays your submission. Make sure that you submitted the correct file,
every year there are a few students who submit the assignment description instead of their
own answers, or assignments for other classes. If you want to replace you submission before
the deadline then return to this page and click “New attempt”.
5. Should I upload an Excel file? No. Given that you will most likely be doing your
calculations in Excel I can understand why this question is asked. However, the assignment
description says you should answer the questions using complete sentences, so you should
take what you calculate from Excel and use it to answer questions in the document you will
submit. You do not need to show your calculations, just the values you calculate in order to
answer the questions. For Question 3, where you are asked to create a graph, you should copy
the graph created into your submission. Note that you are not required to use excel to do your
analysis, if you prefer to use a different program to do your analysis then that is fine.
6. Should I put my name on my assignment? No, Canvas will keep track of who the
submission is by. We mark your assignments anonymously so you should not break that
anonymity by putting your name on your assignment.
7. Should I repeat the questions when giving my answer? No, just give the question
number. We have the assignment, so we don’t need the question to be repeated. Repeating
questions will reduce the number of words you have available within the word limit, and lead
to the Turnitin software giving us a plagiarism warning.
8. Could I use a graph, table, or point form to present statistics? All questions on the
assignment must be answered using prose and full sentences, except for the graph requested
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in Question 3. A sentence must include a verb. This is because the results of statistical
analysis are usually reported in sentences, and we need consistency given that everyone has
the same word limit.
9. How can I make sure I will receive all the marks available for a question? It is
important to read the questions on the assignment carefully and note that there are often
different parts. Receiving full marks will require you to respond correctly to all parts of the
question.
For example, note that Question 2 asks you to “Report the p-value for the t-test and state
clearly whether or not Hypothesis 1 was supported, and state why.’ It is worth three marks, so
you can expect there to be a mark for giving the correct p-value, a mark for a correct
statement regarding Hypothesis 1 (it was or was not supported), and a mark for stating why
(such as that the H0 of no difference was rejected or retained).
For some questions there is only one correct answer (e.g., when we ask you to calculate a
mean) but other questions may have multiple good answers. This is particularly the case
when we ask what you think the data tells us in Questions 5, 11 and 12. For these questions
we are not looking for a single correct answer, instead we are giving you an opportunity to
use your judgement and your understanding of your statistical analysis to tell us what you
think the results means for the questions the experiment set out to address.
10. How many decimal places should I use when reporting results? We have specified
that you give results to three decimal places unless you need more in order to report the result
accurately.
11. If I find a very small p-value, how do I report it? For p-values you would generally
report them to at least three or four decimal places, but sometimes those decimal places are
all zero. One convention is that if the p-value is zero to at least four decimal places, then it
may be expressed as “p < .0001”.
12. What does it mean if Excel gives me a weird number like 1.2345E-67? For very small
and very large numbers Excel can present numbers using scientific notation, with “E”
meaning exponential. Therefore, what 1.2345E-17 means is that the number is 1.2345 times
10 raised to the -17th power (i.e., 1.2345 x 1/100000000000000000, a very small number). If
you don’t like this way of displaying the number then change the cell format from “general”
to “number” and specify an appropriate number of decimal places (do this by right clicking in
the cell then choosing “Format cell”).
13. Which type of t-test do I use and how do I carry it out? The assignment requires you
to carry out two t-test so you have to decide which type of t-test is appropriate in each case.
The materials for Week 5 tutorials give examples of each type of t-test and how to carry out
the statistical tests, so you can use these materials as a model for how to do these analyses. In
particular, the handout shows how to carry out both paired and two sample t-tests. Note that
on the Week 5 Tutorial Canvas page there are links to files giving answers to the exercises
for Week 5.
If you are using an older version of Excel or not using Windows then it is possible that the
function names are not identical to the ones we have given you. For example, the t-test
function used to be called “ttest” rather than “t.test”. We can’t give you all the possible
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variations, but normally the names of the functions are very similar across the versions of
Excel, so it should be easy to find the equivalent functions. To make sure that a function
works as expected you can test them using the data from Week 5 tutorials to make sure that
they produce the expected output.
14. How do I test the hypotheses about correlations? The tutorial materials for Week 5
specify a procedure for calculating a p-value for a correlation by first converting it into a t-
score. You can follow this procedure but if you find another way to do this then that is fine,
as long as it produces the right answers. You can check your procedure by testing it on the
correlation questions in the Week 5 tutorial handout.
15. Do I specify one-tailed or two-tailed when using the t-test function? Use two-tailed even
though the prediction may have a direction. Using a one-tailed test implies that a result in the opposite
direction to predicted would be ignored, which is rarely the case.
16. Do the three issues for Question 10 need to be distinct? Yes, the assignment description says
“identify three different issues” so you will lose marks if you just present variations on the same issue.
If you are not sure if your issues are distinct then ask your tutor. This question is worth 12 marks in
total but it is really three 4-mark questions, with 4 marks allocated to each possible problem you
identify.
17. How do we present Issues 1,2, and 3 in Question 10? Clearly label each one ‘Issue 1”,
Issue 2” and “Issue 3” and to make it really clear put them into separate paragraphs. If you
use material from lectures when answering this question then you do not need to give
citations, but if you use material from outside of lectures then you should provide the citation.
18. Is there any leeway in the 1000-word limit? No. Part of the assignment task is writing
to a word limit, so you will be penalized if you exceed the word limit by any amount. The
assignment description specified the size of the penalties. Note that Question 13 does not
count towards the word limit because if you read more we don’t want to penalize you when
you cite what you have read.
19. Is there a penalty for having an assignment that is too short? There is no penalty for
using less than 1000 words for the assignment. If you can answer the questions effectively
with fewer words then that is fine.
20. Do in-text citations count towards the word limit. Yes. If you are unsure what counts
towards the word limit, then ask.
21. Do I have to find more papers about moral reasoning or utilitarianism? No, all you
have to read are the Andrade (2019) and Everett and Kahane (2020) paper we cited in the
assignment description, and which you must refer to when answering Questions 11 and 12.
Reading more might help you with the questions asking you to make an evaluation, however,
doing so is not required and you could answer these questions effectively just based on what
you have been given.
If you use words or ideas from something you have read then you must properly cite the
source and include it as part of your reference list in Question 13. Otherwise, you are
plagiarising and may be penalized.
22. Can I talk to other students and still avoid plagiarising? You can discuss the
assignment with other students, but you must write your own assignment. To minimize the
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risk of plagiarism you should not exchange electronic copies (e.g., files, e-mails, texting) of
you answers with other students.
23. My assignment is going to be late, can I have an extension? If something unexpected
arises then you should apply for special consideration.
As stated on the assignment description, late assignments are penalized 5% of the available
marks per day. However, you may decide that it is better to submit an assignment late than
one that may not yield many marks.
I believe you can expect a quick response, but you must apply before the deadline for
submission.
24. What is a strong and what is a weak correlation? This is not an easy question to
answer because it very much depends on the nature of the data and what your goal is.
However, one rule of thumb suggests that a statistically significant correlation is described as
“weak” if it is between 0 and 0.30 (or -0.30), “moderate” if between .30 and .50 (or -0.30 and
-0.50) and “strong” if higher than 0.50 (or -0.50). However, ultimately the person conducting
the analysis uses their judgement to give an interpretation to a correlation coefficient.
25. What is relative permissibility? The relative permissibility of taking the action is the
permissibility of taking the action minus the permissibility of not taking the action (i.e.,
permissibility action relative to non-action). The column “Permissibility relative” in the data
file contains the result of this calculation. Notice that there are essentially two halves to the
analysis. In Question 1-5 you deal with just “Permissibility action” and “Permissibility no
action” and ignore the One-off/Repeat condition and the OUS scales. The goal of this part of
the assignment is to ask a methodological question, do we need to measure the permissibility
of both “action” and “no action” so that we can calculate “relative” permissibility? In
Question 5 you draw your own conclusion regarding this question.
After Question 5 we only analyse relative permissibility and how it relates to our
manipulations and the OUS, which is what we had decided to do when we setup the
experiment and had not yet seen the data. (Note that you can bring up data issues related to
any hypothesis in Question 10.)